
It’s one thing to share a manuscript but quite another to share a creative process. "but neither of us were brave enough to tackle a trope so famous and dramatic alone."Īs it turned out, collaborating on a novel was as challenging for the two writers as its plot was for their characters. "We had a favorite trope in common, the death tournament," they note in a recent column on John Scalzi’s website, Whatever. But the idea for All of Us Villains felt capital-B Big from the beginning. ―Amanda Foody & Christine Lynn Herman, (via Whatever)Īmanda Foody and Christine Lynn Herman were already established YA writers and best friends when they had "the big idea" ― to write the novel together they were each afraid to write on their own.

Some ideas start small - a feeling, a scene, a whisper that grows into a roar inside an author’s mind.
